Overview - Axis: Bold As Love, the second effort by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, is a bit similar to their debut album, Are You Experienced, but has a few more melodic songs, a nice touch. I’ll say right now that I personally thought Are You Experienced was a brilliant …

During the fall of 1994, I remember hearing Juicy by the Notorious B.I.G. on the radio and I found the song to be very catch especially the hook that was being sung by up and coming R&B trio Total. As a result, I was very intrigued and decided to …

One More Cup Of Coffee is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his record Desire. The song opens up with a simple acoustic guitar strumming pattern accompanied by a brief bass fill before a violin comes in which stays constant throughout the majority of this song. Thus …

U2 is an Irish rock band that has many albums, one of my favourite albums from them is entitled “How to dismantle an atomic bomb” and one of the songs featured on this CD is called Miracle Drug.
It starts off pretty slow, with the singer following the slow …

Band with a genre of extreme metal, usually have a live album, which represents an intensive tour of the band’s career. Behemoth, as we know, has never released the album Live audio officially, but the album Live to be included in the compilation boxset Historica which only 3,000 copies …

Hey Light is a song by Animal Collective and the second to appear on their fourth record, Here Comes The Indian. Continuing in a similar way to the previous track on the record, Hey Light opens up with a somewhat chaotic sounding introduction, but thankfully the band doesn’t go …

Restless Heart Syndrome is a song by Green Day which appears on their most recent release, 21st Century Breakdown. The song starts off with the piano yet again and features a subtle string section as well which certainly adds a very somber mood to the track. Armstrong comes in …

Desolation Row, the final song to appear on Bob Dylan’s record Highway 61 Revisited is a track which I consider to be a perfect ending for one of the greatest records that I’ve ever had the privilege to listen to. As if you thought some of the other tracks …

Been So Long is a song by The Doors which appears on their album L.A. Woman. The track opens up with Morrison’s vocals accompanied at first by the bass guitar and a drum rhythm which all work together to create a simple but certainly definitive and powerful rhythm. The …

From the play Saturday’s Warrior, Paper Dream is my absolute favorite. When I first heard it many years ago, I was floored by it. It went right into the middle of my heart and it’s never left. It has a lot of meaning for me. …

I could have bought this Blur album as soon as it was released, when I was a teenager. I could have, but I didn’t. But one day I did not have much to do, and I decided to listen to some older Blur records, and I remembered that I …

I was first introduced to Ladyhawke after hearing Paris is Burning on some cable music channel. I wasn’t immediately impressed. I thought the chorus it sounded quite fresh yet catchy (a difficult combination), but equally was put off by the almost rap-esque verse.
My next exposure to Ladyhawke was seeing …

Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves starred in Point Break, a surfer movie in part and a cops and robbers flick in another part. Swayze was the surfer bank robber and Reeves the FBI agent who chases the surfer and becomes part of the culture himself.
Point Break - Music …

R. Kelly
“Trapped In The Closet, Part 18″
TP-3 Reloaded
Jive Records
Chapter 18 of “Trapped in the Closet” is here and no longer are we trapped in the godawful restaurant that we have been trapped in for the past four episodes. Sylvester and Twan are on their way driving back from the …

Ghost is a song by Neutral Milk Hotel which appears on their second release, In The Aeroplane Over The Sea. Opening with a quick acoustic guitar strumming pattern, a fuzzy rhythm soon enters the mix which gives Ghost a slightly heavier feeling and a more interesting rhythm compared to …

BSB’s album “Never Gone” was released in the June of last year. Before I could put my hands on one, the stock was finished! I hadn’t realised that BSB were still in so much demand! Well, the album is so cool, I haven?t yet stopped listening to it! The …

I am not a korean, I am just one of the many filipino fans of the rising star korean girl pop group 2ne1. One reason why I like this group is because of Sandara Park who is now using the name Dara when she joined 2ne1.
I am really …

Jay-Z
“Excuse Me Miss”
The Blueprint 2: The Gift and the Curse
Roc-A-Fella Records
Director: Little X
Jay-Z teams up with music video director Little X for the second single and music video called “Excuse Me Miss” from his seventh album “The Blueprint 2: The Gift and The Curse”. Following the previous “03′ Bonnie …

One of my favorite songs and one I suggested with my friend who was suffering from a break up with her boyfriend. Over it is a song about moving on with confidence. She is trying her man to believe that she can stand up after a fall. This song …

I am an avid fan of Natalie Grant for several years now and this song is one of my personal favorites among her songs. There is a poignant feel to it both from the lyrics and from the melody which I could relate very well.
When I first heard the …

This is trash, pure and simple. If raccoons knock over your garbage can at 3 AM, there will be no way to differentiate between the debris strewn across the street and this filth. From “This Love” on, Maroon 5 have been insufferable, and the easiest solution was to just …

Black Sabbath were the original doomsday musicians and their experiment with sound paved the way for what was to become Heavy Metal.Master Of Reality combines all the elements of a true metal band.Ironically, they are the creators so that task was rather easy for them.If you like dark themes …

I was assigned to sing a Christian song for the 25th wedding anniversary celebration of my friend. I would not know what song to sing so I bought some CD’s to give me enough songs for selection. One of those CD’s is “I Will Be Here: 25 …

Hit To Death In The Future Head is an album by the Flaming Lips and the band’s follow up to In A Priest Driven Ambulance. Although this record starts out in a somewhat weak fashion, I found that it thankfully improved as it went along. The main reason why …

The song I got a feeling is a great song in my opinion. This is for a few reasons. One is that it is a song that is very easy to listen to. Another is that the beat is something fun and easy to hum or sing. And finally, …

Wolfmother’s Self titled debut was released in late 2005 to mixed reviews, many critic’s attacked this album for it’s heavily borrowed riffs and song structure from many 70’s stlye metal bands, I have no problem with their borrowing bits and pieces, every good artists borrows. It took some …

Well, everyone should know the popular song, Tik Tok by Ke$ha or at least heard of it. It was the number 1 on billboard list for nine consecutive weeks. Her upcoming album, Animal was highly anticipated and hit stores on January 5, 2010. I loved the song Tik Tok …

You need not be a die hard Mary J. Blige fan to appreciate some the rare gems on her albums. On the “Mary” album released in 1999, there is one song in particular that really caught my ear. It’s called “Beautiful Ones” (not to be confused with …

Overview —“ Turn The Page, Metallica’s cover of Bob Segar’s song, stays somewhat true to the original song but it’s clear that Metallica adds their own heavy touches to the song. I have to say that although Hetfield was praised for his work around the time of The Black …

The Deftones are getting a very bad rap for their latest album, the self-titled Deftones. It appears that fans are not privy to the new Deftones style. They are much more electronic and less hardcore heavy metal, and there is no trace of Hip Hop in their style at …

Christian Bautista is a famous singer here in the Philippines. He was discovered when he joined Star in a Million here in the country. He was just a runner up but he’s as popular as the grand champion. I’m a great fan of this singer. Not that I would …

Dio is an American heavy metal band which was formed by the former Black Sabbath vocalist Ronnie James Dio. Many heavy metal fans would be familiar with their song “Holy Diver” which has continued to be seen as a classic in the heavy metal community around the world. …

I have been married for 4 years now and before that was engaged for nine long years to the same man. All those years, some songs became a part of our love story. Most of these songs are just so amazing it speaks straight to the heart. Among …

On Korn’s 1998 third album they hired Tod Mcfarlane to do the album artwork, the have a number of guest musicians including Fred Durst, Ice Cube, Tre Hardson of Pharcyde. The hidden track at the end of the album there is a cover of the Cheech and Chong song …

I like love songs, my father said there is no such as love song but ballads. It is only called love song because the song is about love. Anyway, for me whatever it is called I still love songs about love. One of this is the song by Adrian …

“Only Ash Remains” is the 6th track off of Necrophagist’s sophomore album “Epitaph”. For those of you who don’t know is a Technical Death Metal from Germany. Let’s get to the meat and potatoes shall we.
“Only Ash Remains” begins with a melodic and highly technical bass solo while the …

I love the album Faster Pussycat by Faster Pussycat. I had never heard of this 1980’s hair band until about 4 years ago when my boyfriend bought a DVD that had one of their songs on it and I fell in love with it.
So my sister gave me …

Mastermind is a song by Megadeth which appears on their album Cryptic Writings. The song opens up with a heavy guitar part before giving way to a nice bass fill with the guitar rhythm coming back in and out. The guitar itself soon doubles up on this bass fill …

I would have thought that just about everyone by now, at least out of those people who have some sort of interest in football and who have been watching the World Cup (or listening to it on the radio), would have come across the vuvuzela, the one-note plastic trumpet …

Airbourne storm onto the scene with the thundering, rocking, beer-drinking, womanizing “Runnin’ Wild”.
Whilst Airbourne had one album out previous to this, it was very limited, did not sell well and is somewhat of a collector’s item now. Thus most magazines and listeners alike have credited this as Airbourn’es first …

Silvio is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his record Down In The Groove. Something interesting about this track is that it’s actually a collaboration between Bob Dylan and The Grateful Dead, I’m not exactly sure how much The Dead contributed to this song musically, but I …

Overview - Earth A.D., The Misfits’ final album with vocalist and songwriter Glenn Danzig, is honestly just an assault of aggressive music from start to finish without much of a break anywhere in between. To me, this description honestly
doesn’t sound very appealing at all simply because it sounds as …

This movie, at the time, was the scariest movie I had ever seen, but I was also like twelve years old when I watched it. I have watched it again since then and I realize how stupid it really is. Maybe the second time just isn’t as scary, but …

One of the tracks off of the Appetite for Destruction album that is underrated by many people but known to GNR fans is the song, Mr.Brownstone. This song is a pretty killer track and it has a heavy punch with an average tempo to it. The song starts …

Jay-Z
“I Can’t Get Wit’ That”
This is a very old and very rare Jay-Z music video and single from way back in 1994, before his rags-to-riches single “In My Lifetime”. Some say that this was rare and unreleased. It’s called “I Can’t Get Wit’ That” and to be perfectly honest, …

Another Animal is Godsmack with a different vocalist Whitfield Crane of Ugly Kid Joe. The style is somewhat different than Godsmack, this self titled 1997 debut from the band is released on Godsmack’s record label Universal/Republic, the vocals aren’t entirely different than Sully Erna’s but aren’t exactly the same, …

Too Rude is a cover performed by The Rolling Stones which appears on their record Dirty Work. The song starts off with sort of a rapid drum rhythm before leading into a bass line giving the song rhythm and a guitar part which gives the song sort of a …

You Don’t Even Call Me By My Name by David Allan Coe is a classic song to me. I used to think this song was done by Johnny Cash instead of David Allan Coe. Maybe they both did the song, I’m not sure. Either way it is a great …

Monstrously succesful, an absolute legend, constantly on the charts, Pink Floyd’s undisputed masterpiece. These could be the adjectives with which this record could be described with. Other than these, it’s probably one of those rare albums, where the concepts and ideas expressed touch not only one person, but it …

Vanzant is a little rough around the edges but Help Somebody is an excellent song about how to live your life. He talks about how he was taught by his grandparents how to live a right life. He has a great message in this song that is upbeat with …